My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.